Quitting by gradual withdrawal is the same term that people mean when they say that they are cutting down on their smoking.
The idea sounds logical that it will be so gradual that the day you stop it will be as if you hardly made a change.
The fact is that it is nearly impossible.
All it does is extend the withdrawal period and can make withdrawal be even more severe.
In fact, this can be an incredible frustration.
Smoking one less cigarette a day works until you get to the point where you are smoking about half of the cigarettes you normally smoke per day.
This is when the withdrawal and frustration starts and it won't stop but will be dragged out forever.
It's unnecessary torture! Just Look at Those Who Have Quit Almost every person who has quit smoking has done in cold turkey and never gone back.
It's certainly not possible, tons of people have quit successfully.
There are 3 common answers you will hear when asking people who haven't touched a cigarette again in over a year.
#1: "I woke up one day, was sick and tired of smoking, and I quit" - That's all they'll say! #2: These people just got sick for 3 or 4 days and so they couldn't smoke.
They realized they'd made it a few days without smoking and so simple kept it up.
#3: These people where given a choice by their doctor, "stop smoking, or die".
These people didn't have much of a choice.
Each of these situations involved not just quitting cold turkey, but they weren't planned! They simple got the motivation one day and quit.
Once you quit and get past the withdrawal you just have to remind yourself of what it was that motivated you to quit.